David Paden Marchand, best known by his stage name Davey Havok, is the lead vocalist of the American rock band AFI and performs at the KROQ-FM's annual Almost Acoustic Christmas concert at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Read the review: Day 1 | Day 2

David Paden Marchand, best known by his stage name Davey Havok, is the lead vocalist of the American rock band AFI and performs at the KROQ-FM's annual Almost Acoustic Christmas concert at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Read the review: Day 1 | Day 2 (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Detroit rapper Eminem released the first glimpse of his forthcoming, as-yet-untitled new album via a “Call of Duty: Ghost” trailer on Wednesday, and it shows a man focused on a return to greatness as voluminous, venom-filled and explosive as the visuals that the song soundtracks.

Called “Survival,” the track shows the man born Marshall Mathers at an aggressive peak, delivering cuss-filled lines about his return: “I’m … back again with another anthem/Why stop when it doesn’t have to end?” He continues, answering his own question while the bombast of distorted electric guitar and a jumbo beat offer foundation.

“It ain’t over til it’s over – enough when I say enough/Throw me to them wolves and close that gate up," he demands. Em salivates at the thought of wrestling with alligators, commands an enemy to hold their hands up until "you dislocate a rotator cuff.”

The song first appeared Wednesday morning in teaser for a new installment of the wildly popular “Call of Duty” franchise. Whether you like it or not, the fall will be soundtracked by “Survival.” It’ll be featured in the game but will land in many more ears during the multimedia marketing campaign leading to the game’s Nov. 5 release.

That’s a concern, because “Survival” isn’t very good. Produced by DJ Khalil, it’s a steroid-sounding workout anthem whose chorus will no doubt score NFL highlight reels for the entire season. Sung by his longtime vocal collaborator Skylar Grey, it’s a cliché-ridden couplet that sounds like it took as much time to imagine as it did to scribble on a scrap of paper. “This is survival of the fittest/This is do or die/This is winner takes it all/So take it all.”

"Survival" will be on Eminem's forthcoming album but won't be its first single. According to a press released issued by Interscope Records, "an announcement regarding the new album and its first single is expected soon."

In hip-hop, it's one thing to ride hard for your respective side of the country. It's another thing entirely to declare yourself the undisputed bicoastal titan, and call out a laundry list of successful peer MCs you want to eradicate from the history books.

If the torrent of anticipation surrounding Earl Sweatshirt's album "Doris" isn't sufficient for you, now the much-touted Odd Future rapper has something else for you to look forward to -- a free L.A. show.